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I assume 1789 is just a typo for either 1879 or 1889, but in either case it's interesting in that if the 'Yellow Tea' depicted is 'Parks' Yellow' it was still available at that time. Maybe it was just some other yellow Tea Rose.
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#1 of 3 posted
16 MAR by
 Lee H.
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It certainly could be Parks, but I looked at several of their catalogs from ca. 1880-1900, and they were listing a generic yellow tea. As they also had many, many named tea varieties, I too find this unusual.
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16 MAR by
HubertG
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Ellwanger, around the same time, refers to Parks' Yellow simply as 'Yellow Tea' but in the Nanz & Neuner it draws comparison to a 'White Tea' and I can't think of any earlier counterpart for that. Perhaps they were both home-grown US Teas.
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16 MAR by
jedmar
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A White Tea or White China was described by Andrews in his Monograph of 1826. This was a side remark to the Yellow China, supposedly bred by Knights from 'Old Blush'. The history of this Yellow vs Park's Yellow is quite a mess.
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